What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?

[E-F]

I am an avid reader of literature. I started when I was very young, like most, with Sci-Fi, but then worked my way back to the great literature of mankind. So don't consider this as another attempt at me professing my HIPSTERNESS, I'm serious!

Fairly recent
The Man-Eaters of the Kuaom
Solaris
I Am Legend
The Road

Are some of my favourites

Classics

Dr. Zjivago (pasternak)
We (Zamjatin)
La Nausée (Sartre)
Die Verwandlung (Kafka)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) => I know, Gay.

But my favourite literature are the Russian greats (much like the Sovjet filmmakers, they are horribly underrated)
These are my true recommendations.

Crime & Punishment (Dostojevski)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostojevski)
War & Peace (Tolstoj)
Fathers & Sons (Turgenjev)
Oblomov (gontsjarov) => BEST BOOK I HAVE READ TO DATE
Dead Souls (Gogol)


I'll leave you with those. Check out the Ruski's, they know how to write gloomy yet hopeful works.

I'd rather make love to a tearful hazel blears

[mIrReN]

Siddharta
Russian Novels (Dosto, Tolstoj, Tsjechov, Poesjkin, Toergenjev, Gogol)
Dickens - Oliver Twist/Barnaby Rudge
Kafka
Zola, Sartre and the French gang
Gunter Grass, Goethe, Mann
Could go on :s
Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Verlaine, Simenon, Vernes and fuck Camus
I had an obnoxious French teacher, who succeeded in making me appreciate the Frenchies
U Britts have plenty of writers as well but names fail to come to mind, it's a pretty large list I had about Englishmen

edit; Wauw Joeki, we would be best friends bookwise
Evil spirits from Dostojevski don't know how it's translated in English (the title) but in Dutch it's "Boze Geesten"
Still have to read these, good reminder

Dr. Zjivago (pasternak)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Great Expectations (Dickens)


if I can find my old book to-do list I'll copy paste it ^_^
edit2 I really wish I could remember names better

[NickUndercover]

Anna Karenina (Tolstoi)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Soljenitsin)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Thérèse Desqueyroux + The End of the Night (Mauriac)
The Rosy Crucifixion I & II (Miller)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar)
The Stranger (Camus)
The Plague (Camus)
Friday or the other island (Tournier)
Madame Rosa (Gary, written under the Ajar pseudonym)
The Confession of a Child of the Century (Musset)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

If you're looking for less modern/ more 19th century stuff check out
Chateaubriand
Hugo
Stendhal
Sainte-Beuve
Sand
Barbey d'Aurevilly
de Musset
de Vigny

All that kind of romantic shit getme

Edit: I'm sure you'd love Kundera

[Forum]

Who remembers this one? Year 8 english business

[particle-jim]

Not sure about "classics" to be honest as i dont read nearly enough but books that i've thoroughly enjoyed have included:

Robert McLiam Wilson - Ripley Bogle (the verbose and eloquent ramblings of a cambridge educated interlectual from belfast who is now homeless in london)
Will Self - Great Apes (really demanding book, certainly not an easy read... lots of psychadelic monkey sex)

errr... that's actually as many as I can think of at the moment

[E-F]

Who remembers this one? Year 8 english business

lol i had to read it for gcses....

[cloquet]

Candide - Voltaire

there's a lot of comedy, be it literary or otherwise, that's lost its edge over time. candide hasn't. had me in stitches.

[Forum]

[murky21]

seeing an increasing amount of dislike for Bret Easton ellis recently...dont understand why, even his recently Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms were heavy

[hugh]

hairy potur

[gwa]

catch 22

[hugh]

lolol jk

[SCope13]

Ivanhoe. Haven't read it myself, really ought to.

[tyger]

Ivanhoe

i've a hoe

[wub]

seeing an increasing amount of dislike for Bret Easton ellis recently...dont understand why, even his recently Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms were heavy

No dislike from my part, but I've read a lot of his stuff a lot of times and it's influences upon me don't need to be reinforced anytime soon

Ivanhoe. Haven't read it myself, really ought to.

So you're recommending a book you've not yourself read?

catch 22

Just finished it today, really enjoyed it but it was a long 500 pages. Started on the latest Lee Child/Jack Reacher novel straight after to break it up a bit with some pulp

[SCope13]

Well it's considered a classic, so I figured I'd mention it.

[joeki]

Don Quichoté is a classic as well. But I could not read it again, as I found it quite heartbreaking reading it in high school (yes I had no friends in High School).

[ehbes]

Siddharta

never post on dsf again this book was terrible

[cloquet]

Siddharta

never post on dsf again this book was terrible

take it you're not a hesse fan?

[ehbes]

Siddharta

never post on dsf again this book was terrible

take it you're not a hesse fan?

Not in the slightest